WebRTC Weekly Issue #299 - October 30, 2019

Here is the latest on WebRTC  from your friends at webrtcweekly.com.

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Reading

Tencent joins AV1 codec group Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia)
An interesting addition to AOMedia. Agora.io joined as well.

The Need for Speed: Demand for Low-Latency Streaming Is High (Streaming Media)
Doesn’t matter. Spolier Time. Real time. Which one do you think WebRTC is in this article?

Technical

Speech recognition in Hangouts Meet (RTC Bits)
An interesting analysis of how speech recognition works in Google Meet (it involves the data channel)

Discord Turned Into an Info-Stealing Backdoor by New Malware (DigitalMunition)
If you are using Electron, do something to protect the integrity of your source files.

Learn WebRTC Stats Basics in 5 minutes (Ceren Gunes)
A short overview of what WebRTC stats are.

Machine Learning for AOM/AV1 and its Application in RTC (Agora.io)
A look into where ML can be incorporated in an encoder.

Use Cases and Customer Wins

IDnow pulls in $40M growth equity for its identity verification platform (TechCrunch)
Congrats!

Secrets to Monitoring WebRTC Endpoints in a Cloud Contact Center (callstats.io)
An overview of how monitoring WebRTC is handled.

Releases

None this week.

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